[20070829]RS22714_1986-2006年美国邮政服务劳动力规模和就业类别.pdf

1 The data on non-career employment do not include persons carrying out postal functionsoutsourced to private firms. For example, USPS no longer has a fleet of cargo aircraft. Today,the Postal Service contracts with United Parcel Service and other private firms for thetransportation of mail by air. The persons who fly and maintain these planes are excluded fromthe non-career employees data. Order Code RS22714August 29, 2007U.S. Postal Service Workforce Size andEmployment Categories, 1986-2006Kevin R. KosarAnalyst in American National GovernmentGovernment and Finance DivisionSummaryThis report provides data from the past two decades on the size of the U.S. PostalService (USPS) workforce, the number of persons employed by USPS by employmentcategories, and the number of persons employed by USPS under time-limited contracts.It also analyzes the most salient aspects of these employment data. USPS employs over784,000 persons. USPSs workforce declined about 1% during the past two decades,and nearly 12% in the past five years. The number of career employees declined over6% since 1986, and the number of non-career employees increased more than 62%.Clerks, who staff retail counters at post o